A toddler just weeks from celebrating his first birthday has been killed in his Queensland driveway by a reversing car. 

A Townsville woman has been ordered to pay almost $300,000 to her former neighbours for a post she made on social media amid a “dramatic uptick” in online-related defamation cases. 

Corey Worthington, who made global headlines as a 16-year-old after throwing an out of control house party in Melbourne in 2008, fronted the Geelong Magistrates’ Court on Monday, charged with assaulting a man in a mobility scooter. 

New data has revealed South Australia’s  wealthiest inner-city colleges are raking in up to 100 times more than some small, cash-strapped rural schools.